Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-22
MlNSLAUGHpIR
The Jury In the Haddock Mur-
der Case Report Sunday Af.
ternoon at 2 O'Clock,
Finding the Defendant, Fred Munch-
ratli, Jr., Guilty OF the Crime
Of Manslaughter.
The Penalty from One to Eight Years
in the Penitentiary. Closing
the Evidence, Etc.

uiuiu uot S"ee, ~ SIOUX Slty, Iowa, has ter
mi a'ed, wherein Fred Munchrath, Jr, was
defendant The last evidence taken by the
fense and tie rebnttal by the state was On
Thursday, September Is. During the trial a
large numbe' of witnesses were ex mined. but
in the main the evidence was substantially
The same as tina developed at the Arensdorf
trial. hence ynopsis of the moro important
testimony will alone be of general interest
Harry l. Loayitt and Albert Koshnitski,
alias "Bismarck," were examined at length
and subjected to n rigid crosse examination
but their ovid nee was In thorough accord
with their confessions, with which the public
Ia familiar They charged John Arensdorf
with the murder, and alleged that Fred
Munchrath, Jr., was amoug the number who
ncouraged personal violence to Rev. Had
dock, Wood aud Walker, AMI was present at
the SC ne of the murder
United states District Attorney Murphy
again testified about being taken from The
depot tne night OF III, The ki Ing, in hack to
his home on West Third street and how he
was stopped by Fred Munchrath, Jr., near
the corner of Fourth and Pearl streets 1t
was then, Murphy t. mis- ahout l0:l7 o'clock,
Alderm, Grady and James SEQ lard test-
fled that ihey were in Junk's SALON short V
after 10 o'c.ock tue samo night and that Fred
Nun hrath, JE, John Arensdoyf and num-
Der oil othet parties were in the saloon at the
tine. y he testimony of state witnesses
was almott lden ical with that given at the
hrens orr trial.
he evidence intro iuced by the de !ense was
largely the same as at lie former tr al, wi Ii
The exec ton OF that of tho new Witnesses
D. Nj. oiiiloils on .Tas u o first w tuess called
by the defense lie said lie was a saloon-
keeper and attended the sa oon-k epers' meet
ing at Holpenr eds hall on the night before
the murder; that he and Ieavitt notified
mum er OF saloonsk kt erers 10 be present; that
no threats against Haddoek, such as Leavtt
teshed 10, were MAZE at the meet ng that
night
Charles Ehlers swore that he saw L. avitt
aud Bisma ok talk nS together in y @ alley on
the north side of Fourth, between Pear. and
Doug'as streets, three or four da s after tae,
murder This was denied un- er oath by
both loavi't and bismarck
Pau Leader, one Of the defendants in the
murder case, and at he ,ime of the murd r
tie keeper OF the Milwaukee hotel aid saloon,
told about tie same story us he told on The
stand at The y ensdorf tIiak
Chas. Gampb II, an ex-salor aud bartender,
testified ttlat 1T he lime OF the murder he wa,
Clerk at the Chicago house, on the corner of
Fourth AMI Jones streets; that night abou 10
O'clock he vas on Buff street; tina started
down Fourth street, AM when al tls corn,r
OF Fierce street he met Fred Aunchr ill., the
defen ant coming across from the south side
OF foorth street. and IRON there W.T. kel on
east lc tue next street, Nebraska, up which
Mu cEEitn 8 arted as If he MAS 90 ing to HIS
hous', tie I'll, mont; that he h nseIf went cast
en- Fourth sIree AM iad goue,ab, u BOOK
aud half further when he hear. revolver
shot eom where o the west, ana that le hen
went into the Chicag, house.
Harry ShermaD, me of the defenian s,
gave The came evl1ence as at the Aren stiori
tIia He CLAIMS not to have been wi h the
crowa tlat rigat; hat when the shot was
fired he Was his pl CO Of husIn5 IS on he
corIer of lourti AMI Sebra ska stree ..
j. ~ u 10 rIIip tyIlf fnfB mt +p
the 1laddock Indictment wasa with 80 He
sa d he had lived in Son City ten years, and
had been brewer .fe sttendel the saloon
keepers meeting AT Fl ldenricti', hall on tue
night of August ,, 1886, and the meet ng
la ted about five or terminates. He attended
no second, no private NEE ing here Lhatn ght
as cha ged by Leayitt. He denied that
1rieber said there that he had a conple of
MED that he had spoken of blowing up any
buildings. or that he "a d that the brewers had
too much monoy invested 10 allow the probibi-
tionlst- to stop tn saloons or that he said
there was $500 in tho treasury, or that
leayitt made inquiries about bioriarity, or
that l. Lsavitt promised TO try to get Moriarity
TO whip Haddocls. The state waived cross
examination of Arensdorf.
Mrs. Gertrude MuL Lchrath, tho mother of
the defendant, testified substantially as foi-
lows: II am 50years old and have livel in
Sioux City twenty y-nine years. | live on Fourth
street and lived here in August Of last year.
I
book stors. 1rcm.mber hearing of the kill
ing of DR.. Haadock. ! ad been to Chicago
and returned home on the S O'Clock tram the
night of the murder. My husband was with
me on the visit to Chicago. Mr.. and Mira.
Cousins We're at onr house that igh when
we came home. first saw Frcd Aunchra h.
Jr,, that night about 1920 o'clock. Ny
daughter and bor children were at our house
when Fred came heard shot fired that
evening between 10 aud II o'clock i was IN
the front room which faces south. | heard
some one coming up stairs JUS before the shot
and was closing the windows, and then l
went into tho nng-room and fouad Fred
there, and also my huss and, my daughter aud
the chill ren. Fred remained about tifte n
minutes and Mr. Munchrath and FEED then
went out. Then my husband came back and
ga that some one hal been shot / thought
the shot was toward Perry C, eek"
On cross-examination Mrs. Munchrath soid
II remember it was just twenty minutes past
10 O'clock because l looked at the watch,
which was hanging over the washstand. Fred
came in later, just little later for when 1
Wentinto the dining Ifouni HIM there. :"
Fred Munchrath, Sr., father OF defendant,
Mrs. Alma Cousin, sist2r of Fred's, James
+. Cousins, brother-in- aw, all CAV evidence
corrobofatiye of that of the defendan 8
mother
Fred Munchrath, Jr., thederendant, testified
IN substance as follows: 81 am the defendant
in this case and have liy in Sioux City all
fremont house On Nebrsska street, near
Fourth. Iha saloon bar in the hotel On
the evening of the I'd d of August, 1856, |
was in Holdenried's hall. Harry sherman and
lwent there together. There were eight or
ten persons there, or something near thar. 1
stayed there about five minutes and cama
away with Sherman and Charley CORN ny.
Nothing as said there of whipping Hadaock,
Wood, or anybody else, Iaiton led no private
meeting there Ibid not remain ter tho rest
gotup to 90. did not ask leavilt TO renla!n
had no conversation with Ieayitt at private
meeting, and said nothing about whipping
Wood and Walker
Munchrath here den'ed ser atm all the
statements which LeayiGt testified wore made
the private mseiiug at Holuenrie q hall,
Witress, continuing: The next day-the
day Of the murder--I went with Leavi;t TO he
railroad yard. went 10 collect a bill VIII CHI
Morarity owed me for board. / didn't sly 4.
word 10 Moriariiy and was only there lew
moments. Leayltt went up 10 Moriar,ty md
spoke 10 him. Loayitt tiiked to him only q
iality about shipping HadloSk, Wood or any
body else. ga d NOTING on that subject
Then came back to my place
81 was not at q Q rCrneu o. Fourth and Wa
ter streets when HaddoJit was murdered
have heard Muphy's to- tim NJ, snd il is
true that stopped Nurphy's hack the II ght
of tie murder. / kuew that parties were out
in hack to SEQ wha; Haddock was doing, and
stopped tie h .cS out OF curiosity up
pose. / did 10 know that anytody inun ed
to do Haddock any injury tha night / did
not tay 10 Ieav!tt ilat they had Letter get a
hack and see wat Haddock was up 10. [
didn't know whore tn artis in he hack
went, except that they were after Iaddock.
~ don't know what time / was in Juuk's sa-
loon did not go with the crowd that went
west rom Jnrkis oon. | went east to
fathers place, ami alter ineui ing down
stars went upstairs and into tie dining
room. Iroma rod from fifteen 10 Thirty m n
ues there and Then father ard went my
lace the Fremont house 1t wes ten or iif-
teea m,nut later tina, learned oi tie kill
: ing. Two boardeFs had baen at the Academy
10 miustre show and ctme in and taid that
some one had been hiiisd. A few minut 8
Ter hear that Haddoci was killed
On or uss-exa,n ma on ~ The s.aie MUNICH
rath testified as fellows: 81 knew Louis
Plath, another Of The uefondans; was and
ing with h IN ab III o'clock on The corner OF
Douglas and Fourtt reefs and when Iiadtlock
went pas in a buggy / sa d by lingo, there
goes Haddeck. had just been 10 Her